[Halld-online] [Halld-offline] SCONS, CLAS12, DAQ group and Hall D

[Graham Heyes]

I agree with David that the end must justify the means. Also it is a  
little strong to say that the DAQ group has adopted SCONS. Carl has  
been trying it. No formal decision has been made as far as I recall.

	GRaham

On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:37 PM, David Lawrence wrote:

>
> Hi Elliott,
>
>    The argument hasn't changed:
>
> The investment in manpower to both discuss and then make the switch  
> must
> be projected to be less than the difference in manpower from  
> maintaining
> each of the systems for this to be a worthwhile pursuit. To my
> knowledge, no one person has spent more than 1% of their coding time
> addressing issues inherent to make. (This includes the time I spent
> writing the current system!)
>
> IMHO we should only even begin discussions on this when we start to  
> see
> real problems with the existing system that would require significant
> investment of manpower to overcome. Otherwise, scons belongs in the  
> same
> category as GEANT4 has been in for the last half a decade.
>
> Regards,
> -David
>
> P.S. Maybe if you actually checked out and built the Hall-D software,
> you would fear "make" so much.
>
> Elliott Wolin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> SCONS is a replacement for MAKE.  CLAS is switching to SCONS for the
>> 12 GeV upgrade, see Dennis Weygand's slides (attached).  The DAQ  
>> group
>> has already switched to SCONS.
>> I think Hall D should switch as well.
>>
>> Perhaps we should have someone give a talk about it in an Online or
>> Offline meeting, maybe Dennis or Carl (DAQ group).
>>
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